Large pharmacy vase with two handles in polychrome earthenware from Naples or Castelli decorated with "Saint Martin sharing his coat with a beggar" and dated on the back 1702. It bears, under the scene, an inscription "Aqu. Cand. Sancr." and on the back the monogram of the Carthusian Order "Cart" for Cartusiae (Cartusian) with the C symbolising the globe surmounted by the cross which illustrates the Carthusian motto "Stat Crux dum Volvitur Orbis" ("The Cross remains while the world turns").
Attributed to Giuseppe Canonico, a ceramist who worked in Naples after training in the Castelli workshops.
This vase most probably comes from the pharmacy of the Carthusian monastery of St. Martin in Naples.
H: +/- 46 cm
(small accidents and scratches)

An almost identical vase, also dated 1702, was presented for sale at Cambi Aste in Milan on 18 November 2014 (no. 159).
Two albarelli with the same decoration were auctioned at Cambi Aste in Genoa on 12 June 2018 (no. 151, dated 1701) and on 22 and 23 October 2019 (no. 727).
Several copies of the same albarello are now kept in the Museum of the Charterhouse of St. Martin in Naples.

Provenance: former Ansiau-Pieraerts collection.